American Attitudes Towards the Funding of Higher Education
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2018-05
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The Ohio State University
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When evaluating education, there is much more to consider than just the conventional learning that takes place in the classroom to consider. The role that higher education plays in developing and maintaining inequality is commonly neglected. Education is essential for social mobility and can leave effects that affect more than one generation. Universities and colleges across the nation are demonstrating active policy efforts to make higher education more inclusive by providing tuition subsidizes for their low-income students. Populations across the nation hold unique perspectives of education and who or how it should be funded. These opinions are commonly justified by way of gender, age, SES, etc. In order to reintroduce the public's opinion regarding the funding of higher education I reviewed telephone responses from the 2015 Constructing the Family Survey, a national survey of approximately 800 U.S adults. Among these survey I discover who the American public believe should be paying the cost of higher education, along with the underlying reasons for their opinions concerning this issue. Responses to these questions capture Americans' beliefs towards higher education that can be used to advance policy efforts having to do with higher education financing. Capturing the publics' beliefs is especially important because public opinion over this social issue has been overlooked for quite some time now.
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Higher Education, Responsibility, Accessibility, Policy, Funding